Trini DeSoto

Trini DeSoto (died 1984) was a Calderone Cartel hitman who worked for the cartel boss Esteban Calderone during the early 1980s.

Biography
Trini DeSoto was born in Colombia, and he learned how to speak English by watching shows from the "Golden Age of Television" in the late 1950s and early 1960s. At some point, he was recruited by Esteban Calderone as one of his hitmen, and he was known for his various disguises, including wearing a woman's clothing in order to assassinate Leon Mohammad Jefferson in September 1984. DeSoto carried out many of Calderone's drug-related murders, and he took up residence in Miami, Florida by the 1980s.

In 1984, he met with undercover detectives Sonny Crockett and Rico Tubbs, who were pretending to be potential business partners. He agreed to have a drug deal with them, and he had dinner with them at an upscale nightclub. DeSoto arranged for a drug deal with Tubbs in an alleyway of Miami, but Tubbs did not know that DeSoto discovered that Tubbs was an undercover detective from the DEA agent Scottie Wheeler, who leaked information to the cartels. DeSoto, dressed as a woman, attempted to shoot Tubbs, but he was distracted by the arrival of more policemen. DeSoto was then shot in the chest by Tubbs, killing him.